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With this volume, The Forsyte Saga--that series comprising "The Man of Property," "Indian Summer of a Forsyte" (from the volume "Five Tales"), "In Chancery," and "Awakening"--comes to an end. J. G.

I. ENCOUNTER II. FINE FLEUR FORSYTE III. AT ROBIN HILL IV. THE MAUSOLEUM V. THE NATIVE HEATH VI. JON VII. FLEUR VIII. IDYLL ON GRASS IX. GOYA X. TRIO XI. DUET XII. CAPRICE

I. MOTHER AND SON II. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS III. MEETINGS IV. IN GREEN STREET V. PURELY FORSYTE AFFAIRS VI. SOAMES' PRIVATE LIFE VII. JUNE TAKES A HAND VIII. THE BIT BETWEEN THE TEETH IX. FAT IN THE FIRE X. DECISION XI. TIMOTHY PROPHESIES

I. OLD JOLYON WALKS II. CONFESSION III. IRENE! IV. SOAMES COGITATES V. THE FIXED IDEA VI. DESPERATE VII. EMBASSY VIII. THE DARK TUNE IX. UNDER THE OAK-TREE X. FLEUR'S WEDDING XI. THE LAST OF THE FORSYTES

Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and looking into the Future. He walked. Since the War he never took a cab if he could help it. Their drivers were, in his view, an uncivil lot, though, now that the War was over and supply beginning to exceed demand again, getting more civil in accordance with the custom of human nature. Still, he had not forgiven them, deeply identifying them with gloomy memories and, now dimly, like all members of their class, with revolution. The considerable anxiety he had passed through during the War, and the more considerable anxiety he had since undergone in the Peace, had produced psychological consequences in a tenacious nature. He had, mentally, so frequently experienced ruin, that he had ceased to believe in its material probability. Paying away four thousand a year in income and super-tax, one could not very well be worse off!

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